StoryCorps: One mom, two dads, and one baby

For as long as she could remember, Suzanne Thompson wanted to be a mom, but she was running out of time. She thought of her friend Christopher Noessel and his partner Benjamin Remington, who always wanted to be dads, and then she had an idea that could maybe give them all the chance to be parents...together. To make sure their future child wasn’t confused, they sat down with StoryCorps and made this tape for their son, Miles, while he was still in utero.

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This interview was facilitated by Kevin Oliver in the San Francisco StoryCorps booth at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. It was produced by KALW’s Holly J. McDede.

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